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Raw acoustic data collected by an EK60 echo sounder in the Scotia Sea on board the RRS James Clark Ross cruise JR161 (Oct - Dec 2006)
Acoustic backscatter data were collected on board the RRS James Clark Ross (cruise JR161) as part of the Discovery 2010 programme.
Data were collected using a Simrad EK60 echo sounder at 38, 120 and 200 kHz. The EK60 was run continuously from Stanley (Falkland Islands) to Signy (South Orkney Islands), then to South Georgia across the Scotia Sea in the austral spring (October - December) of 2006. Dedicated acoustic transects were also run at eight stations within these transects. The EK60 was calibrated prior to data collection on a previous cruise (JR159 on 13-14th October 2006). More information about the calibration can be found in the Cruise Report for JR159: https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/information_and_inventories/cruise_inventory/report/jr152_jr159.pdf
JR161 was the first of three cruises which comprise the field studies of the British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) core science Discovery 2010 programme, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.
*******PLEASE BE ADVISED TO USE PROCESSED DATA*******
The JR161 EK60 processed data is now available at https://doi.org/10.5285/c831d5e4-8d03-4aea-a6c6-6db101f36d8d.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2015-04-24
- Date (Revision)
- 2015-04-24
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-04-24
- Date (released)
- 2015-04-24
- Edition
- 1
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/ee55ea8e-9bfe-4dc4-94a1-7610307ea25a
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- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00814
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- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
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- completed Completed
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- Acoustic backscatter in the water column
- Scotia Sea
- acoustic backscatter
- echo-sounding
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- Scotia Sea Southern Ocean
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- NERC-funded data supplied under OGL v.3:
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- Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS.
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- Begin date
- 2006-10-23
- End date
- 2006-12-03
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- It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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Methodology:
The dataset comprises Simrad raw format files that have not undergone any processing or quality checking. The raw data files (Simrad .raw format) are stored by the Polar Data Centre (PDC) at BAS. Each data file contains approximately 17 minutes of data and is approximately 26 MB in size. Each data file contains raw ping data with associated GPS fixes and date/time.
Data collection:
Data collected using a Simrad EK60 echo sounder.
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- 2015-04-24
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- ISO 19115:2003(E)
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